Scalia, born in 1936, has this to say about his school days in Elmhurst, Queens:

The teacher . . . was a lady named Consuela Goins,
and she was a wonderful teacher. Every cloud has a silver lining, and
one of the benefits of the exclusion of women from most professions was
that we had wonderful teachers, especially the women who today would
probably be CEOs.

The school was a very mixed group of people. There are no blacks in the
class, and there really weren’t any in our neighborhood, but other than
that it was, my goodness, polyglot . . .